manager. Furthermore, we hypothesize that optimistic managers embody positive leadership—employing a strengths-based approach … productivity of their employees. In a cross-sectional study of 86 employees and 17 managers in an Information Technology (IT …) organization, positive leadership correlated with employee optimism, engagement, and project performance. When we looked at a …

firm performance and the weight given by the popular press and financial community to the importance of the management of … on the firm or industry but is reflective of the strength of the beliefs held by managers. This implies that the "black … box" approach that is characteristic of much management research may be problematic because it fails to measure the …

Conduct an exploratory study on operationally focussed managers within a South African company, using both quantitative …

This article describes a programme of practice-grounded empirical management research set within an NHS Trust Hospital … management using critical incident technique and factor analytic methods. The results are compared against those from an … management and human resource development within the case-study NHS Trust Hospital, and possibly beyond. …

changes and conflicts and to examine those managers‘ styles of management and conflict handling. Thus the phenomenon of … connected management of conflicts are stretchable intertwined with the capacities of the manager to lead during such … transitional period.The goal of this research paper is to explore the attitude of managers of rapidly growing companies toward …

lists management objectives and says that the job of a leader is to exemplify the strengths he or she sees in his or her … believes that there is an adversarial relationship between company management and employees, and that there are very few … quieted down. Sarasohn mentions organizations that serve as Japanese management resources and lists the updates he would like …

. Drucker goes on to discuss: the post-war period as a diffusion of American management technology, British companies, major … should be, the visibility of leadership groups in large institutions, John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman, the dependence …

Research problemThis research revolved around the problem: Which management strategies could be formulated and used in … primary schools of the North–West Province. Finally the aim was to develop management strategies in order to optimise the … used.Development of management strategiesThe results of the literature review as well as the empirical investigation were …

organisation, the importance of employee engagement, the impact of the management or leadership style, and the opportunity for … of Service, Service Managers, Supervisors and Front Line Operational Employees.Secondary data included Best Value Reviews … recognises those additional key drivers as engagement, corporate ambition, leadership style, training, resources, external …

In the past ten years there has been considerable debate on thesubject of leadership and management development … firstly the place ofBusiness Schools in developing leaders and managers (Cornuel, 2005;Marrington and Rowe, 2004; Grey, 2004 … as a response an industry identifiedneed to develop an applied leadership practice program at postgraduate level suited …